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Companies might invest more in new ventures if they could see in advance how to redeploy the assets if things don’t pan out

Tweaking 401(k) website design and language can significantly boost worker contributions, yet HR doesn’t always see these opportunities

Analysis of 250 studies finds the most common response to negative workplace behavior is an eye for an eye

How we interpret time-series data is dependent on the designer’s chosen format

Research Brief / Time

That’s helpful information in a social media world filled with friends who do enviable things

Rigid adherence to scoring systems can reduce consumer spending when it’s most needed

Companies are surprised: Opportunities to reduce CO² are more plentiful than expected

Sixty years of data suggest retirement obligations rise after Democrats scrape into office

“Uh, I already bought a house”: Tech workers spend ahead of actual stock sales

Prerequisites are valued poorly in a series of six experiments

Research Brief / Labor

Caribbean plantation owners, faced with slavery’s end, enacted legal barriers to employment elsewhere

Buyers find the tomes heavy, costly and too frequently revised, while sellers might like to kill the used book market entirely

Less sophisticated investors reveal their sentiment in certain trades, and a 20-year study measures it company by company

$A classroom with students$ Research Brief / Gender Gap

A clue that parents prefer a son: They have more kids when their firstborn is a girl

The government’s floating rate notes feature an added measure of security: higher interest earnings in times of rising rates

Researchers offer a model for more effectively targeting wrongdoers

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